Authors of literature by era
Antiquity (up to the 5th century):
Homer (Iliad, Odyssey) – Greece
Sophocles (Oedipus the King) – Greece
Virgil (Aeneid) – Rome
Horace – Roman lyric poetry
Augustine of Hippo (Confessions) – Early Christianity
Middle Ages (5th–15th centuries)
Dante Alighieri (The Divine Comedy) – Italy
Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales) – England
Saint Thomas Aquinas – Theological philosophy
William of Loris (Romance of the Rose) – France
Gil Vicente (Auto da Barca do Inferno) – Portugal
Renaissance (14th–16th centuries)
XV–XVI)
William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth, Sonnets) – England
Luís de Camões (The Lusiads) – Portugal
Erasmus of Rotterdam (In Praise of Folly) – Netherlands
Michel de Montaigne – Creator of the modern essay
Rabelais (Gargantua and Pantagruel) – France
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